I have had so many discussions about Chat GPT or AI generally lately, it's astonishing. Very much in the zeitgeist. And while I have used AI generated images (my post for Pan Narrans was only AI plays on paintings) I've never used it for writing or editing my blog pieces.
I find there's something bland or featureless about the AI summaries. If I read the AI summary for all the product reviews, it just feels like mush. I still don't get a sense of why the product is good or not (Most people liked using X, a few commented that it didn't work as well after a few months, but most people didn't have that problem. - meaningless!) I love reading the quirky reviews which sound like a friend has written it - OMG, I used this knife on a picnic and I will use no other ever again.. - comments like that, vivid, personal often funny but even serious ones that give you a sense of why someone did something and how - that AI can't capture - yet.
I would caution against too much AI in important documents - for example some people are writing cover letters for job interviews entirely by AI and I think they sound both bland and insincere. Of course, the first read through is by AI - so it has to have all the key words the computer wants, but when the final 5 or so get to a human - then it has to have something that would catch a human's eye. By no means a simple feat!
Just a warning - just as you can sense that something has been written by AI, so someone can sense something you have presented is also AI. While it's still in its teething stage, make sure you cast a stern eye over anything you ask it to write!
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